My “Difficult Epigrams”from CRB issue 4.1 are now up online. Link below for brass noses, obsidian, espaliered trees, sibyls, humanisms, and other intractable loves:
clereviewofbooks.com
Would you still love me if I had a brass nose? What if I were intractable? What if I were as old as the Sibyll? Beauty isn’t everything. I cannot recall the face of Bach.